#UncoolTwo50#ALT50
"DAY 3"
1978
THE JAM
'DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT'
UK
UK #15
"too many right-wing meetings"
My favourite Jam single and probably my favourite thing Paul Weller ever did.
it is very hard to do 'story' singles as evocatively as this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4oi...
I have a different Jam single plus a Paul Weller single in my top 20.
No doubt with so many quality singles the vote will be fractured and the individual singles be lower than expected
Isn't it just poetic licence, not a literal "smell" (I mean, I can imagine the pub smell is literal, but Wormwood Scrubs is already figurative and he's just extending that)?
Sparkling wine? With curry?
Proves your point that story songs are not easy. My two favourite Jam songs are both more sketches than songs (and lyrically flawless) - That's Entertainment and the one on my shortlist.